Ok, today I bought SampleTekk's "Black Grand - Ambient" as GS3 direct download. Now it's downloaded and unpacked (3.7 GB compressed / 6.2 GB uncompressed) and I'm trying to figure out how to assemble it. The thing is it's a multi-format library (GS3/EXS24/HALion/Kontakt) so all samples are stored separatly as wav files and the Gigastudio file is empty. According to the instructions you have to use the "Replace all samples in all folders" feature in the Gigastudio Instrument Editor to get them inserted.

Now I'm wondering: How do I go about that business with gigedit? I'm guessing that something similar is currently unimplemented?

If you need help just ask, it should not be too hard to add the needed features and perhaps it will be useful to other LS users too(ie all sampletekk customers that want to use LS )

But for correctness Sampletekk should specify this to customers (that the samples do need to be assembled first)

Anyway I applaud Sampletekk for releasing samples in multiple formats and not going the closed sampleplayback plugin + drm crippled samples.I think the drm crap will slowly die like it did with the online music (now you can buy unencrypted mp3s on amazon.com and itunesstarted to offer unencrypted AAC (=mp4) songs too.

Will test it tomorrow and send you a patch if it works as expected (otherwise a cry for help). All I've done is to create a "Replace all samplings in all groups" item in the samplings pop-up menu that let you choose a folder with wav files, it then try to match each samplings name with a wav files name whose data will be written to the sampling in the gig file.

BTW, about Sampletekk's distribution method, it's quite a chock to extract a 7 MB RAR-archive and have it decompressed to 6.2 GB like Shannon's law doesn't apply.

Last edited by dahnielson on Sun Feb 03, 2008 2:33 am, edited 1 time in total.

One problem you might encounter with Black Grand is that libgig doesn't currently support saving files that are larger than 2 GB, that is, it can't create the .gx01, .gx02 files.

I got Black Grand before gigedit existed, so I made a small program for the sample import. I've uploaded it here: http://hem.spray.se/andreas56/updatebg5.cpp. But, of course, the right way to do it is to extend gigedit and libgig.

Andreas wrote:One problem you might encounter with Black Grand is that libgig doesn't currently support saving files that are larger than 2 GB, that is, it can't create the .gx01, .gx02 files.

I got Black Grand before gigedit existed, so I made a small program for the sample import. I've uploaded it here: http://hem.spray.se/andreas56/updatebg5.cpp. But, of course, the right way to do it is to extend gigedit and libgig.

Oh, blimey! That's what I feared. Thanks for the warning and the small utility though.